Chapter 48: The Crimson Apartment 8

The deep blue flames seemed determined to burn everything to ashes.

Even in her dreams, Zhou Zhou found no peace. The young girl furrowed her brow, her eyes tightly shut, her lush and curled eyelashes trembling uneasily, while her delicate, snow-white face was covered in a film of glistening sweat.

Her thick, dark hair was damp and messy against her shoulders and neck, tangling with her fair skin and exuding a hint of alluring sensuality.

Her slender, soft waist—thin enough to snap with a single grasp—was swallowed by a vast expanse of black fog.

Some terrifying entity seemed intent on devouring her flesh and blood.

It was examining her with meticulous care.

This gaze was scorching and blatant, making Zhou Zhou's tightly closed eyes tremble as she tried to open them, yet she found herself utterly unable to do so.

"W-What is this..."

Something gripped her slender, alabaster neck.

Zhou Zhou shed silent, unconscious tears—whether from pain or something else, she did not know.

A large, freezing-cold hand imbued with the aura of the abyss seized her ankle with a death grip.

The pressure felt as though it would snap her slender, graceful leg right in two.

"N-No... Don't break it... Don't eat my leg..."

The young girl cried out in grievance, struggling desperately to pull her leg away and keep the monster from consuming it.

"So cute."

Loid chuckled softly, releasing the girl's ankle.

The demon's silvery-white hair shimmered with a moonlight-like cold luster, and his murky purple eyes revealed a trace of amusement at being entertained.

She was truly too adorable.

Why had he never realized before that humans could be this interesting?

In the darkness, countless resilient, deep-green tentacles seemed to imprison her soul.

They were the minions of the demon, the embodiment of evil... Like terrifying evil spirits, they had devoured countless deeply sinful souls.

The girl's fragrance gradually drifted outward, and the air seemed steeped in honey, sweet enough to make one's heart tremble.

Zhou Zhou only remembered taking her food delivery and wanting to leave the apartment...

Only to be dragged into the room by a stretch of pitch-black fog.

It was like having a bizarre and psychedelic dream, where everything within it was absurd beyond belief.

She was dragged by a terrifying, horrifying black fog over a searing fire.

The eerie, cold flames burned Zhou Zhou's flesh. Terrified to the point of a cold sweat, the thickest and most horrifying mire of the mortal world filled her soul.

Two cold lips, carrying the faint, burned-out scent of rock, pressed against the young girl's lips.

That thing was kissing her.

And it was kissing her... with cold ferocity.

Zhou Zhou was terribly frightened, the sweat pouring from her body only increasing. A tiny wisp of fragrance overflowing from her bright red lips drove the creature to bite and devour it away with the ferocious frenzy of a mad dog.

Trembling, the young girl pitifully pleaded with the monster, "M-Mister... or Miss, c-can you please not scare me?"

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